Quotes About Recollection

You remember where you were doing each scene. 'Oh my God, it was so hot that day.' It's kind of cool to see a movie that you haven't seen in a long time and reflect on that stuff.

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.

She remembered—oh, she could not stop remembering.

But she had smiled and reached out her hands for his—had he held his own out first? He could not remember. All the world had been reaching out to him, and he had taken her hands in his and known he was at home again.

Algunos días eran tan tranquilos que al cabo de una semana era imposible recordar lo que había sucedido en su transcurso. Otros estaban tan llenos de acontecimientos que era imposible creer que veinticuatro horas dieran para tanto.

Elizabeth's fingers itched to slap him. She could recall now the stinging satisfaction she had had from doing so on a previous occasion.

Whatever we recall, if we respond to it with love, we can transform even those memories we think of as injustices. With love we go into forgiveness. We forgive what happened and we forgive ourselves. The result is that our agreement changes and we recover a little more of the totality of ourselves.

Its not lying, it's remembering things the way they should have been.

But most of the time, we keep memories packed away. I sometimes liken that moment of sudden unpacking to circus clowns pouring out of a miniature car trunk—how did so much fit into such a small space?

At unexpected points in life, everyone gets waylaid by the colossal force of recollection.

For all of memory's power to yank us back into an overwhelming past, it can also fail big time—both short-term (the lost vehicle in a parking lot, the name at the tip of your tongue) and long-term (we made out in high school?).

What is your heart doing now? Remembering. Remembering!

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being...

Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

And we forget because we must

My memories of the last year were playing back through my mind at super-speed, but I was looking at them all from a different camera angle.

She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.

We have met once," she said, "at the Holcombes. If Mr. Roark remembers.

Él sonrió, no del todo a ella, sino como divertido ante un repentino recuerdo suyo.

He realized that he was thinking of his past, as if certain days of it were spread before him, demanding to be seen again.

I fail to remember, the mind has fuses.

It is so easy to invent, by mistake, not remember what was there, what is truly remembered?